Cecil Skotnes
Pilgrimage to Dias Cross
About this Item
title page signed by artist and the poet, and numbered 21 in pencil
each print signed by the artist, dated 87 and numbered 21/46 in pencil, 18 prints numbered in pencil with order number, 2 unnumbered
Notes
This private edition of the poem Pilgrimage to Dias Cross by Guy Butler has twelve original woodcuts in colour and eight original wood engravings by Cecil Skotnes. All woodcuts and engravings were printed from the original wood blocks on Zerkall Buetten paper by Joseph Richards assisted by the artist on a Heidelberg platen at the Citadel Press Cape Town, South Africa in June 1987. The boxes, made by Ken Woody of Cape Town, have copper embellishments by John Skotnes.
The edition consists of:
20 bound copies numbered 1 to 20
5 bound artist's proofs numbered I to V
25 loose-leaved copies in a wooden box numbered 21 to 46
3 copies for exhibition purposes
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